NEW TEST: Due to a technical production error, the highly acclaimed Danish restaurant Molskroen did not make its way to the printed edition of the White Guide Nordic 2015, when the guide was published in December.

This, in spite of the fact that the Jutland based establishment features at a comfortable 87th place in the list of the best restaurants in the Nordic countries with a solid 77 points total, 32 food points.
The full review of Molskroen can be accessed through the ebook and in the soon-to-be-launched White Guide Nordic app, together with the review of its next door brasserie style Molskroen Strandhotel. Or you can read it right here:

French connection moves south

After Michel Michaud left Ruth’s Hotel in Skagen, there was a collective sigh of relief when he announced he was only moving a bit further south to run the kitchen at Molskroen’s beach hotel. Thus Denmark’s restaurant scene kept one of its great legends as an active proponent of French gastronomy. Since the autumn of 2014, Michaud has also taken up the gastronomic reins at Molskroen’s main restaurant as well as the beach hotel brasserie. Lasse Paulsen is still the head chef but the cooking is informed by Michaud’s uncompromising expression of classic French styles.

WHITE GUIDE NORDIC: The now legendary New Nordic movement was a fresh approach to everything: the ingredients chefs used, how they sourced them, how they cooked them – or not – and how they presented them. But behind the hype is a rich mosaic of traditions, local variations and individual cooking styles.

(This is an extract - you can read the entire article in The White Guide Nordic Book)

By White Guide’s publisher-editor Lars Peder Hedberg.

When the Copenhagen-based Noma made its trial appearance at Mandarin Oriental in Tokyo in early 2014, it was a roaring success. Savvy Japanese diners couldn’t get enough. And Noma’s René Redzepi wanted more of Japan. It was true love. So, for two months in the beginning of 2015, the entire restaurant is relocating to Tokyo, this time without the Nordic foodstuffs, but only the mindset.
Extremely fresh (as in “live”) and its opposite, rotting (as in “fermented”), are two of the many elements that contemporary Nordic and traditional Japanese cuisine have in common. This gastronomy is not for the faint of heart, but for those who dare to venture outside their comfort zones.
Leading Nordic chefs, such as Copenhagen’s Jakob Mielcke at Mielcke & Hurtigkarl, have been inspired by Japan for years now. In Sweden the fusion is especially palate- and eye-catching, where leading restaurants such as Restaurant Frantzén, Oaxen Krog, Mathias Dahlgren, Gastrologik and Fäviken Magasinet all, in different ways, meld Swedish and Japanese techniques and traditions. But the best place to enjoy Swedish-Japanese fusion is at Sayan Isaksson’s triple-unit establishment in Stockholm – the fine dining Esperanto (ranked Best Restaurant in Sweden 2013 and 2014 by the White Guide), the innovative restaurant Råkultur, and the casual izakaya, Shibumi.

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With over 100 Masters Level restaurants, the Nordic countries offer a wide variety of excellent culinary experiences. The Top 30 are all at the Global Masters level and they include some of the best restaurants in the world.